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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Spring Serenity Read-a-Thon Day 4

The Spring Serenity Read-a-Thon is being hosted by Michelle at The True Book Addict and runs from April 25th through May 1st. There's still time to join in on the mini-challenges and prizes, as you can join in anytime through the week, reading as much or as little as you'd like. I'm hosting a mini-challenge here as well, with a chance to win!

Well, we were without electricity from early A.M. (4 or so) until after 5 P.M. this evening, which was hard, since without electricity, there's no heat, no hot water, no cooking, no coffee! (That last was probably the worst for me; I had to go to McDonald's to stave off an attack of no-caffeine heebie jeebies). This explains the lack of posting earlier today, as once the electricity came back on, there was a scurry of cleaning and washing (since it's sometimes temperamental, and I wanted to be ready just in case it went out again).

I'm currently reading (clicking cover will take you to the Goodreads page):

The Dragon's Path by Daniel Abraham - on page 435 with 314 pages read during the read-a-thon

page 259 of Blameless by Gail Carriger (***** indicates spoiler redacted for those who haven't read previous books in the series)

--Page 69:"Italy?""The hotbed of antisupernatural sentiment," spat Professor Lyall."The cesspit of religious fanaticism," added Tunstell."The Templars." That last was from Floote, and he whispered it."I think it's a perfectly topping idea," said Alexia, expressionless.Madame Lefoux examined Alexia's face sympathetically. "You think the Templars can explain how ******* ?""Why don't you tell me? You once said you managed to read a portion of the Templars' Amended Rule.""You did what?" Professor Lyall was impressed.Floote looked at the Frenchwoman with renewed suspicion.

BOOKS READ (click the cover to go to the Goodreads page):

Last 254 pages

374 pages

361 pages

My Book Retreat's Mini-Challenge is the Page 69 Test, so I've included page 69 of Blameless here. The premise of the Page 69 Test is that a reader can turn to page 69 of any book and use that page to judge whether or not they will like the rest of the book.

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